BANE

Ill bringer

• ___ of one's existence

• ... the ___ of my existence

• 'I will not be afraid of death and ___': 'Macbeth'

• Affliction

• Anathema

• Bad thing

• Bete noire

• Blight

• Bringer of ill

• Bugaboo

• Bugbear

• Canker

• Cause of destruction

• Cause of distress

• Cause of harm

• Cause of misery

• Cause of one's undoing

• Cause of ruin

• Cause of ruination

• Cause of woe

• Curse

• Deadly poison

• Dennis, to Mr. Wilson

• Destruction

• Downfall

• Flea, to Fido

• Garlic, to a vampire

• Killer dog's name in the Diane Whipple case

• Leading

• Nemesis

• Nuisance

• Plague

• Poison

• Poisonous-plant suffix

• Problem source

• Proverbial thorn

• Reason for ruin

• Ruin

• Ruin to Keats

• Ruination

• Ruinous agent

• Scourge

• Something avoided

• Something terrible

• Source of aggravation

• Source of harm

• Source of misery

• Source of ruin

• Source of trouble

• Spoiler

• Sun, to Frosty

• The ___ of one's existence

• Thorn in one's side

• Thorn in the flesh

• Thorn in the side

• Undoing

• Unhappy influence

• Witch's brew

• Woe

• Something causes misery or death